Make Way For Egypt’s Independent Contemporary Performing Arts
The art practitioners, art aficionados, cultural journalists and–above all–the regular audience...
Read MorePosted by Ati Metwaly | 30th Mar 2018 | Egypt, Essay
The art practitioners, art aficionados, cultural journalists and–above all–the regular audience...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 26th Mar 2018 | Egypt, New York, News, Theatre and Dance, United States of America
Egypt’s renowned prima ballerina Magda Saleh was honored during the event From The...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 23rd Mar 2018 | Egypt, Festivals, News, Theatre and Disability, United Kingdom
In line with the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival’s (D-CAF) commitment to addressing the...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 26th Feb 2018 | Egypt, Festivals, News
This year’s festival kicked off in Cairo on February 13, moved to Alexandria, and concluded...
Read MorePosted by Ahram Online | 14th Jan 2018 | Egypt, News, Playwriting
The latest play by the Modern Theatre troupe, titled Forsa Saeeda (Nice To Meet You), has opened...
Read MorePosted by Ossama Lotfy Fateem | 9th Jan 2018 | Acting, Egypt, Review
Staged by the Actor’s Studio, an initiative housed by the Creativity Centre, Surrender is a...
Read MorePosted by Soha Elsirgany | 12th Nov 2017 | Egypt, New York, Review, Theatre and Gender, United States of America
After starting in New York, the storytelling performance made its international debut in Cairo,...
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 17th Oct 2017 | Egypt, Festivals, Review, Theatre and Gender
Ten out of 20 plays at this year’s Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental...
Read MorePosted by Soha Elsirgany | 27th Sep 2017 | Egypt, Festivals, Theatre and Politics
Organized by Cairo’s D-CAF festival, Arab Arts Focus ran for a month, garnering positive...
Read MorePosted by May Selim | 24th Sep 2017 | Documentary Theatre, Egypt, Festivals
The Cairo International Festival for Contemporary and Experimental Theatre (CIFCET) has just...
Read MorePosted by Andrea Pelegri Kristić | 2nd Sep 2017 | Directing, Egypt, France
Adel Hakim was a French-Egyptian actor, playwright, pedagogue, and director. He was well-known for...
Read MoreWith this year’s Egypt National Theatre Festival drawing to a close, a closer look at the...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 6th Jul 2017 | Design, Egypt
The International Organisation of Scenographers, Theatre Architects and Technicians (OISTAT) has...
Read MorePosted by Sondos Shabayek | 19th Jun 2017 | Egypt, Theatre and Gender
I. So when a man pinches my ass or grabs my boob or another tries to rub his dick against my thigh...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 10th Jun 2017 | Egypt
The Artistic Theatre House has announced that Ahmed Taha, director of the new DMC Masrah (DMC...
Read MorePosted by Göksu Kunak | 25th Apr 2017 | Africa, Egypt, LGBTQ+ Theatre
The term ‘freak’ thus refers not only to bodies, but also to denormalizing social...
Read MorePosted by Soha Elsirgany | 20th Apr 2017 | Egypt, Theatre and Gender, Theatre for Young Audiences
The play Untangled (Hal El-Dafayer) was staged at Cairo’s Hosapeer Theatre last week, where...
Read MorePosted by The Theatre Times | 16th Apr 2017 | Egypt
The highly anticipated Arabic stage adaptation of Elif Shafak’s bestselling novel The Forty Rules...
Read MorePosted by Cleo Jay | 13th Mar 2017 | Egypt, Morocco, Theatre and Politics, Tunisia
In the two years since the beginning of the ‘Arab Spring,’ North African theatre...
Read MorePosted by Ati Metwaly | 21st Jan 2017 | Egypt, News
On January 6th, the Egyptian culture scene lost one its highest pillars, Nehad Selaiha, a woman...
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